Editorial: Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2 (1)

This issue of Practitioner Research in Higher Education presents the work of academic staff who are investigating and developing their pedagogy in the professional field of teacher education. However, the collection of papers and the issues that they engage with are of relevance to colleagues across the full range of subject disciplines in higher education. They demonstrate how a subject discipline community is able to push forward academic development and professional learning through enquiry within the academic workplace. This prime location for effective academic development, within subject discipline teams, is strongly argued for by Boud (1999) and by Knight, Tait and Yorke (2006).